Barry Manilow Quotes

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I never thought I would be singing for the world.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling when you wrote the song. They're the same thing, in a way; it's expressing your emotions through words.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

I change the language with which I use my voice. In opera, I know I have an orchestra behind me; I have to communicate to people very far from me.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

I couldn't sing without a guitar. I like the way it feels to sing and be holding a guitar, even if I'm not playing it that much. All my idols that I grew up liking always had a guitar on them, but they didn't play it - Buddy Holly, John Lennon, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello. It's like having a partner with you.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

Whenever I sing a song, I just want it to reach out to the audience.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

For me the voice is the most important, but making your singing believable makes a great performer.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.